Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner: The Prize Plays and Other One-Acts Published in Periodicals

by Jennifer Burton (Introduction), Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence

During the 1920s the annual literary contests sponsored by The Crisis and Opportunity magazines provided critical professional outlets for African-American women playwrights. The works presented here (both prize-winning plays and plays that received their first publication in such organs as The Saturday Evening Quill and Carolina Magazine) cover a wide range of dramatic genres - from propaganda plays and light comedies to melodramas, folk plays, and poetic drama.

216 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1996

Reviews

[Heather]

Only work on goodreads by Eulalie Spence, who wrote taught, acted, and wrote the play Her during the Harlem Renaissance.